Paul Nahin: Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel

ISBN: 9781421400822
Author: Paul Nahin
Page: 200
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2011
Format: Book
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: Arabic

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Price: 7 450 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That’s just what Paul J. Nahin’s guide provides.

An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to explain the ins and outs of how to spin such complex theories as worm holes, singularity, and relativity into scientifically sound fiction. First published in 1997, this fast-paced book discusses the common and not-so-common time-travel devices science fiction writers have used over the years, assesses which would theoretically work and which would not, and provides scientific insight inventive authors can use to find their own way forward or backward in time.

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